Switch.



PATENTED JUNE-2,'1903'.

OBNEY.

SWITCH.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 7, 1903.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

K0 MODEL.

vlll l- No. 730,041. PATENTED JUNBQ, 190s.

M. OBNEY.

SWITCH.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 7. 1903.

110 MODEL. 2 sums-sum 2 72 W I Y i$$6e 1 v 1 No.57so,041. UNITED STATES I'atented June 2 1903. PATENT OFFICE.

MENDEL OBNEY, OF BRILLIANT, OHIO.

SWITCH.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 730,041, datedjune 2, 1903. Application filed January 7 1903. Serial No. 138,145. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Vention is particularly adapted for use in connection with street-railway switches, and has for 1ts object to provide novelzmeanswhereby a switch-point can be readily manipulated from the car, so as to permit the car to pass on the main track or side track,'as

desired.

Briefly described, the invention comprises in connection with a pair of pivoted switchtongues a mechanism comprising ,throwinglevers arranged in the road-bed and connected to strips extending upwardly adjacent to the rails, whereby they may be engaged by a suitable mechanism supported from the car.

In describing the invention in detail referonce is had to the accompanying drawings,

forming a part of this specification, and wherein like numerals of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, in which Figure l is a top plan View of my improved 3 is atransversevertical sectional view on line 1 1 of Fig. 2. Fig. 1' is a detail perspective view of a partof the switch mechanism. Fig. 5 is an underneath plan view of the cartruck, showing the means for operating the trips. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the-same;

In the accompanying drawings, 1 2 indicate the main rails of the track, 3 4 the rails of the side track, and5 6 the two pivoted switchtongues. The'rails of the track at the switch are supported on cross-ties 7, which rest on sleepers 8, these cross-ties also forminga support for the central cover-plate 9 and for the outside cover-plates 10 11 12. The coverplate 9 is provided with slots 14, through which extend the pins 15, which connect the switch-tongues 5 6 to links 16 17 pivoted together at their one end by the pin 18, which This invention relates to certain new and I useful improvements in switches, and the in+ crank 19. This bell-crank is pivoted to the cross-piece 20 and has-its other arm or" leg pivoted'to the throwing-rods 21 22, which are pivoted togetherby the same pin which pivots the bell-crank thereto. The throwing-rod 21 also pivots thereto the one arm of the bellis pivotally connected at its outer end to one arm or leg of the bell-crank 23, pivotally supported on the cross-piece 24, with its other arm or leg pivotally attached centrally to the laterally-movable bar 25. The rod 22 is pivotally connected at its outer end to one arm of the three-armed lever 26, pivotally connected to the cross-bar 26 and which has its one arm pivotally connected to, the laterallyin'ovable bar 27 and another of its arms pivotally connected -to the lever 28. The laterally-movable bar 25 and laterally-movable bar 27 are connected at their-ends to the lowerend of one arm of the bell-cranks 29,

which are pivotally mounted in the sleepers S. The free ends of the bell cranks, to which the bar 27 is attached, extend into the slotted shanks 30 of the tripping-pins 31 32, which operate in vertical openings provided therefor in the sleepers 8 and are limited in their upward movement by transverse pins 33, passing through the slotted shanks 30, near the lower ends thereof. The bell-cranks 29 of the bar 25 have their free ends extending into the slotted shanks of the trip-pins .34 35, these trip-pins being of the same construction as the trip-pins 31 32 and shown clearlyin detail in Fig.- 4 of the drawings. The outer end of v the laterally-movable lever 28 is connected to the bell-crank of the same construction as those heretofore described, and it engages in the slotted shank of the trip-pin These trip-pins all operate through suitable openings provided therefor in the coverplates 10, 11, and 12, and these cover-plates'are provided with bosses 37, placed outside of the. trip-pins, so as to form guideways 38, into which the operatingshoe will engage to depress the respective trip-pins. -The switch is operated by mechanism suspended from the car,.the preferable form of which is shown in Figs 5, cor the drawings, in which 39 indicates the truck frame, to which is attached the substantially U -shaped bracket 40. J ournaled in bearings 41 and extending through the bracket 40 is the shaft M, which carries a pin 43, adapted to engage with the pin 44, carried in the vertical shaft 45, extending through the lower bar of the bracket and having a spring 46 arrz'tnged thereon between the said lower bar of the bracket 10 and the pin ll. This shaft carries a shoe on its lower end, which is preferably in the form of a wheel 47, as shown. The pin 48 extends through the shaft 12, and connected to this pin on opposite sides of the shaft 42 are cables 49 50, extending to oppo site ends of the car and connected to drums 51, which are operative to Wind the cable thereon and depress the shoe 47 by means of horizontal levers 52, connected to the shaft of the drums 51, and vertical levers 53, extending through the platform or frame 39. This operating mechanism, it will be observed, can be mounted at either side of the car, and by the provision of the trips 31, 32, 34:, 35, and 26 the switch may be thrown in any desired direction irrespective of which side of the car the operating means is mounted as, for instance, when the car is passing toward the right and the operating mechanism is on the left-hand side of the car the switch will be moved so as to open the side line, while when the trip-o1')erating means is on the right the switch will move to the left and open the main line.

It is to be noted that the shoe 4-7 is forced downwardly by depressing lever 53, causing either the cord 41-9 or 50 to be wound on its drum, the shaft 42 rotated so as to cause the pin -;L3 to engage pin ii and depress shaft &5 and shoe 47, and cause the latter to engage with the trip so as to depress the latter and actuate the bell-crank and through the connections therewith shift the switch-tongues 5 (i in the desired direction.

It will be noted that various changes may be made in the details of construction without departing from the general spirit of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. I11 a switch, the combination of sleepers,

cross-ties mounted on said sleepers, rails mounted on said cross-ties, a pair of pivoted switch-tongues, a pair of links pivoted together and to which said switch-tongues are connected, a bell-crank pivoted to said links, throwing-rods pivoted to said bell-crank, laterally-movable bars pivotally connected to said throwing-rods, vertically-movable trips mounted in the sleepers, bell-cranks engaging said trips with one arm pivoted to the laterally-movable bars, and means for depressing said trips to actuate the switch-tongues, substantially described.

2. In a switch, the combination with the pivoted switch-tongues, of a pair of links pivoted to said S\Vil](:l1ljOIlgl1eS and pivoted together, a bell-crank pivoted to said links, throwing-rods pivotally connected to said bell crank, laterally movable bars, bellcranks pivotall y connecting said bars to the throwing-rods, vertically-movable trippins, bell-cranks engaging in said pins and pivotally connected to the laterally-movable bars, and means for depressing the trip-pins to actuate the switch-tongues, in unison, substantially'as described.

3. In a switch, a pair of sleepers, cross-ties mounted in said sleepers, rails mounted on said cross-ties, cover'plates mounted on said ties, a pair of pivoted switch-tongues, links pivotally connected together and pivoted to said switch-tongues, a pair of throwing-rods pivotally connected to said links, laterallymovable bars pivotally connected to the outer ends of said throwing-rods, trip-pins mounted for vertical movement in the sleepers, bell cranks engaging in said trip-pins, and pivotally connected to the materially movable bars, and means for depressing the trip-pins to operate the switch-tongues substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witncssles.

11S MENDEL ()BNEY.

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\Vitnesses:

ELswoRTH EVERSON, WILL Loon. 

